This paper addresses the area that is at the intersection of
Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce. This area refers to
the exchange and trade of explicit and implicit knowledge at an
inter-organisational level. Electronic knowledge marketplaces are
currently emerging to address the opportunities and risks found in
the purchase and selling of knowledge at the business-to-business
(B2B) environment, the need for supporting long-lasting
relationships of knowledge exchange and the requirement for
facilitating virtual community contexts where knowledge seekers can
find suitable knowledge providers and knowledge can advertise and
sell their available knowledge. The paper describes the business
challenges associated with the design of Internet-based knowledge
marketplace. INKASS, a European IST project, has stimulated this
work and has provided real-life verification on the arguments raised
and on the positions adopted herein